Summer Edward is a Ginkgo Prize-longlisted author who writes for all ages. Her children's book debut, The Wonder of the World Leaf, was published by HarperCollins UK in 2021. She is also the author of eight children's books published by Heinemann, a division of HMH (formerly Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Her writing has appeared in various literary magazines and peer-reviewed academic journals internationally, as well as in anthologies published by Candlewick Press, Amistad Press (an imprint of HarperCollins), Peepal Tree Press, University Press of Mississippi, and University of Illinois Press. She studied fiction at the Kelly Writers House (UPenn) and is a recipient of writing scholarships and mentorships from The Highlights Foundation, Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference, and the Cropper Foundation Creative Writers' Residency. She is represented by Kate Rogers at KO Media Management.

She holds a Master of Science in Education (M.S.Ed.) degree in Reading, Writing, Literacy from the University of Pennsylvania and currently serves as Consulting Editor at The Horn Book Magazine and an Adjunct Professor of Children's Literature at the Community College of Vermont. She previously worked as an associate editor of children's fiction at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has reviewed children's and young adult books for School Library Journal, The Horn Book Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, and more. She is a lifelong Roothbert Fellow, a member of the International Literacy Association's Children's Literature and Reading Special Interest Group, and has served on the juries of the Golden Baobab Prizes for African children's literature, OpenIDEO's Early Childhood Book Challenge, and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She created Anansesem, the first magazine devoted exclusively to coverage of Anglophone Caribbean literature for young readers, which was published for a decade. For her 14 years of advocacy for more and better Caribbean representation in literature for young readers, Edward has been dubbed "the doyenne of Caribbean children's books" by British literary journalist Polly Pattullo Hon. FRSL.

Born in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, she grew up in Trinidad and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She lives in Florida.